At the opening of the new Engineering building on Friday, University Chancellor Jack Cowin, and his wife Sharon, announced a surprise donation of $5 million to support Western Engineering and to name the new space the Amit Chakma Engineering Building.
At the opening of the new Engineering building on Friday, University Chancellor Jack Cowin, and his wife Sharon, announced a surprise donation of $5 million to support Western Engineering and to name the new space the Amit Chakma Engineering Building.
University Drive Bridge will close to motorists, starting Oct. 18, after an inspection found seized bearings that could have led to further damage during the winter. The closing means buses, shuttles and other vehicles will have to make detours; the bridge remains open to pedestrians and cyclists.
Colin Couchman, new Director (Cyber Security and Business Services), wants you to protect your passwords, secure your wireless network and back up your data. And he really, really hopes you won’t fall for those pesky e-mail phishing attempts.
Western researchers will get help transforming the world with the support of $23.9 million in grants from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC), in a significant funding announcement made last week.
Ever since Chris Fox was a young boy, he wanted to visit alien planets. With no immediate plans for such a voyage, the Western University graduate student has done the next best thing. He’s gone and found one.
Get a Western team together or register on your own for the United Way StairClimb at One London Place on Thursday, Nov. 8. Hop on the free bus from Alumni Hall at 11:45 am and start your climb at 12:15 pm. Help make poverty #unignorable.
Recipients of the 2018 Western Award of Excellence will be honoured at a ceremony scheduled for Oct. 29 at 11:30 a.m. in the Great Hall. Register today for the reception and show your support for seven of Western’s outstanding staff.
In our Fit Feminist Challenge Group we have a thing every Tuesday called “Try This Tuesday.” It’s a way of encouraging people to try new things, using the “Try This” entries in Fit at Mid-Life as prompts.
You have to love a novel that explores friendship, mystery and morality at a small college in New England - particularly when the story, involving students of the Classics, is recommended by a Western professor of Classics. Find out what else Alexander Meyer is up to in this latest chapter of Read. Watch. Listen.
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